While the house was nice, there were a few things about it that didn’t make sense and we had some issues with the bathrooms.
First, the bedroom with a king bed and a queen bed has a huge wall of windows over looking the common living space. This was terrible since it picked up all the light and sound from the living room. Not so great if you have a child and sharing that room with them. Second, the hot water was intermittent. We basically took cold showers for two days.
Speaking of showers, the other bedroom on the second floor trickled, barely supplying any water to actually take a shower. The third bedroom shower wasn’t built properly and water leaked out into the main bathroom floor, flooding the bathroom every time it was used.
We arrived late on Wednesday evening and wasn’t able to connect with the host until the next day. While there were prompt with communication which is really great, they couldn’t get a maintenance man until the next day. So this is two days with these issues.
On the third day, the host stated the maintenance man will be there and to have someone open the gate for him. My husband spent his entire day waiting around for him to only show up after 6pm. While he was able to fix the trickling shower-head he said there was no way to fix the issue with the flooding on the third floor because it wasn’t built properly. Which we already knew. You can clearly see that the bathroom floor is flush with the shower floor. Their fix they had already in place was this plastic guard that wasn’t even attached to anything so it just moved around when water hit it.
I had asked several times for a partial refund as this has affected our stay. BTW, all full baths were in bedrooms. There was no full public full bath and there was nowhere the person staying on the third floor could shower without inconveniencing others.
After asking several times for a partial refund, they didn't answer my request and offered to send us a dinner on them. Then they only offered me 1000 baht which is $30 USD a few days after we left the property! That’s crazy, we stayed there for four nights and spent over $1k for this house. Not including the driver we had to pay to get anywhere from this location, which was $65/day.
Speaking of location, the house is super far from Bangkok city center. Without major traffic, in a van, it still took us about 40 minutes to get to the city center. It isn’t within walking distance of anything convenient. It’s located in a dead end ally and you’d have to walk 20 minutes out of the alley to get to any shops like a convenient store or restaurants. This is most likely the reason they offer delivery of free breakfast every morning.
Needless to say, we hired a van for our four day stay and it added up quickly. The traffic in Bangkok is terrible and I really spent the majority of my vacation stuck in traffic. One evening I spent 4 hours to get 4 miles. It really was a turn off.
And by the time we got back home in the evening, we didn’t want to leave and go enjoy the nightlife to sit in traffic.
I would not recommend this house if it’s your first time in Bangkok and are looking to be in the middle of walkable shops/restaurants or transportation. Even if it isn't your first time, if you're looking to be around anything convenient, I would not recommend this house. If they fixed the issues with the water and showers and you need to be on the skirts of Bangkok, then I would recommend it.